Hall bench

Very nice. I like the design. Looks very well made.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

Bert,

This is a nice bench. The through tenons and ebony add nice details to the piece. I enjoy working with jatoba but I found it to be hard on my blades.

Thanks for the post.

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very nice design. i like the curvature of the seat. those are beautiful through tenons too. very well constructed and executed. great job!

Thanks for the nice comments, all. And you’re right, Scott. I have to sharpen my chisels regularly when I work on this project! I do love the look of jatoba, but it is one VERY hard wood, and it splinters easily.

By the way, this project will be in the next (June) issue of Popular Woodworking.

This is a beautiful design! Did you design this? Wow. Congratulations on getting it in Popular Woodworking. I love it. Favorited!

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Great sturdy & well designed bench Bert.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Fantastic design. Looks like a Chinese pagoda.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Outstanding design and craftsmanship.

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Looks very Asian in design. It is very nice.

-- Young Padiwan Woodworker

Nice design, well executed!

-- There is nothing in the world more dangerous, than a woodworker who knows how to read a micrometer...

Looks Japanese in design. A hint of greene & greene, with a side of A & C. Very nice.

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

This is beautiful. I love the joinery and the fact that you put the stretcher so low to the ground. Great lines and flow.

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Gorgeous! Congratulations for getting it published in Popular Woodworking.

-- Brian, Folsom, CA

Very clean lines Bert. I love the colour as well.

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nice design Bert ! great detail work

welcome to lj’s

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Nice bench, I just finished reading the article in Popular Woodworking. very well done.

-- Joey~~Sabina, Ohio http://sleepydogwoodworking.blogspot.com/

Hey another famous LJ. I loved this bench when you first posted it here and I just got my June PW issue only to find it there again. I love it, I’m going to build one too.

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Thanks for all the nice comments, all. If any of you choose to make the bench (are you listening Shannon?) feel free to email me or post any questions you might have. It can certainly be made with materials other than jatoba and ebony, and might be considerably easier to mill the parts. It also is greatly eased if you have an orbiting spindle sander. This project was my inspiration to buy one, and it is a real boon for sanding curves.

I also changed the way I flatten the seat/top. As described in the article, I first used my old Craftsman belt sander, nicknamed the “screaming Mimi.” The last bench I made I opted for using a Microplane (the hand tool version) and this worked very well. No noise either, except the sound of wood shearing and my sweat dripping on the bench!

It’s awesome!! I think the most interesting, and challenging aspect of woodworking is joinery! I love it! It is my favorite thing about woodworking!! You did an outstanding job. I love the trestle, and the through tenons!! Just gorgeous!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

Thanks, Matt. I, too, truly enjoy learning and employing different joinery techniques. I have a desk project (to be published later this year) that employs mortise and tenons, sliding dovetails, half-blind and full dovetails, modified box joints, dowels, spline miters, and side-hung drawers. Great fun, and entirely functional.